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Fake Trump arrest photos trigger a new AI panic

Yes, the fake-photo singularity is coming. But panic is the wrong response.

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Mike Elgan
Mar 23, 2023
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Before OpenAI, the company behind both ChatGPT and DALL-E, the sustained panic centered around deepfake videos, produced by generative adversarial networks (GANs). Everybody feared that deepfake videos would become the ultimate tool for spreading disinformation. Deepfakes, we were told, could produce “evidence” that political leaders, for example, said …

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